I don't know why, but that little segment in the movie with the shovel thingies that whack them in the face just caused me to laugh out loud.

Have you read The Salmon of Doubt? Or some of Adams' non-fiction?

CSX321

steeple

I knew Adams was very involved in the script, and the movie, and I still think it is the poorest representation of the wonderful world he created. Sorry.

lever2k

Ah, the Apple IIe. Now that was a puter.

monkity

Tiwa

ceilingFANBOY

The ending totally felt tacked on, and is my major beef with the film. The mice want his brain for the question because they don't want to wait around for the Earth to finish it's computations... But, Magrathia just restores from backup, which just happens to be mere seconds before the destruction - and read out- rendering any wait time moot.

Huh? So, you need his brain, but you don't really? That just made no sense.

Dunny0, ELE Hopeful

I'm not sure if she'll be happy or horrified that there is yet another version for her to acquire.

And yes, the TV version is wonderful, cardboard sets and all.

laughingacademy

zorazero

beercheck

beercheck

Evil Tortie's Mom

darcymcgee

You know, I was super skeptical of the new movie and only went to see it because there was NOTHING else showing and my girlfriend REALLY wanted to go see a movie. She paid.

It was pretty entertaining, but I still remained a cynic.

Then I found out that Douglas Adams had written the screenplay: surely it was revised, but fundamentally it's the HHG2G story the way D. Adams wanted it to be on the big screen.

Still some things I didn't like (I thought the "So Long and Thanks for All The Fish" musical bits were tedious, and Humma Kavula was...unappealing) but these were a bit outweighed by things I thought worked...the P.O.V. Gun was great, and the Infinite Improbability Drive was fun. Zooey Deschanel was a great Trillian.

I, for one, liked Zaphod's head in the film too. I thought it leant a zaniness to the guy that walking around with the obvious "second head hanging off the shoulder" wouldn't have captured.

So once I realized that it was an Adams screenplay, I sort of grokked the film as a continuation / extension / revision of the universe. The film is neither better nor worse than the TV series, it's simply...different...and the two can co-exist nicely together.

If it had been some Hollywood crank rewriting the thing, my perspective would have been different for sure. But it wasn't: it was the guy who brought us this phenomenal world in the first place.

darcymcgee

I really loved the way Mostly Harmless ended in that format - it felt so much more "right" I thought.

@ideaman2020: I was really hoping for a LoTR style adaptation, one that kept true to the spirit of the original, that used the source instead of just gutting it and going it's own way. Granted, every version of The Guide is different from all the other versions, but the movie didn't even seem like it was from the same source.

The animation was good, though. I did really enjoy those bits. Oh, and the creature effects: I loved the Vogons.

Dunny0, ELE Hopeful

I heart the old series too. Zaphod isn't Zaphod without two visible heads.

Seth L

TheRealFennShysa

I wished that the big budget movie had been more like the tv series [but with better special effects].

Or maybe the cheesy BBC not-so-special effects were part of it's loopy charm... difficult to say.

Oh, and the radio series was good, too!

ideaman2020

Now, what's this about about new versions of the radio series? I'd check, but stupid work has blocked that site for some unknown reason.

Dunny0, ELE Hopeful